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BYU-Hawaii beats Francis Marion, moves into NCAA II quarterfinals; HPU bounced 5-0
BYU-Hawaii moves forward in NCAA II tournament
ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, FL - The top-ranked Brigham Young
University Hawaii women's tennis team defeated 7th-ranked Francis
Marion on Wednesday by the score of 5-1 to advance to the
quarterfinals of the NCAA II National Championship.
The Seasiders swept the three doubles matches, despite having play interrupted by a rain delay, and then took singles wins at the fourth and sixth spots to end the match.
With the win, the Seasiders improve to 27-0 for the season.
In the doubles matches the Seasiders' Elwen Li and Yuan Jia scored an 8-3 win at the first position over the sixth ranked duo of Krystyna Horakova and Jitka Gavdunova, while Jenny Chin and Wen-Lin Wang claimed an 8-4 win at number two doubles over 13th-ranked Tereza Sykorova and Sabina Baberadova.
BYU-Hawaii's Shawni Porter and Ayako Ikeda earned an 8-2 victory
at number three doubles to stake BYU-Hawaii to an early 3-0
lead.
In singles play, Porter took a 6-3, 6-3 win at number six singles
and Wang scored a 6-3, 2-6, 6-1 win at number four to give the
Seasiders the match.
Francis Marion, 20-5 for the year, got a win at number five
singles to prevent a sweep.
BYU-Hawaii will face second-ranked Lynn (26-0) in Thursday's
quarterfinals. Lynn breezed to a 5-0 win over unranked
Bloomsburg in today's opening round.
BYU-Hawaii 5, Francis Marion 1
Singles:
No. 1 #3 Elwen Li, BYUH vs. #18 Tereza Sykorova, FMU 5-7, 3-2 DNC
No. 2 # 4Yuan Jia, BYUH vs. #24 Kristyna Horakova, FMU 7-6. 2-1 DNC
No. 3 #17 Jenny Chin, BYUH vs. #29 Jitka Gavdunova, FMU 3-6, 2-3 DNC
No. 4 #20 Wen-Ling Wang, BYUH def. Valeska Ibscher, FMU 6-3, 2-6, 6-1
No. 5 Sabina Baberadova, FMU def. Ayako Ikeda, BYUH 6-0, 6-3
No. 6 Shawni Porter, BYUH def. Saskia Ludwig, FMU 6-3, 6-3
Doubles:
No. 1 #1 Li/Jia, BYUH def. #6 Horakova/Gavdunova, FMU 8-3
No. 2 #8 Chin/Wang, BYUH, def. #13 Sykorova/Baberadova, FMU 8-4
No. 3 Porter/Ikeda, BYUH def. Ibscher/Ludwig, FMU 8-2
